Mixogaster
There are 21 myrmecophilous species in this genus. Mixogaster is distinct by lacking an appendix on vein R4+5, having a reduced and bare metasternum, an unarmed scutellum, and usually an appendix on vein M extending in cell R4+5. Larvae are found in ant nests.
Genus and species | Author and Year | Ant Host | Distribution | |
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Mixogaster anthermus | (Walker, 1849) | ants | Neotropical: Paraguay | |
Mixogaster breviventris | Kahl, 1897 | ants | Nearctic | |
Mixogaster cicatrix | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster conopsoides | Macquart, 1842 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster cubensis | Curran, 1932 | ants | Cuba | |
Mixogaster currani | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster delongi | Johnston, 1924 | ants | Nearctic | |
Mixogaster dimidiata | Giglio-Tos, 1892 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster flukei | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster imitator | Thompson, 2004 | ants | Neotropical: Brazil | |
Mixogaster johnsoni | Hull, 1941 | ants | Nearctic | |
Mixogaster lanei | Carrera & Lenko, 1958 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster lopesi | Carrera & Lenko, 1958 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster mexicana | Macquart, 1846 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster orpheus | Hull, 1944 | ants | Neotropical: British Guiana | |
Mixogaster pithecofascia | Hull, 1944 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster polistes | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster rarior | Shannon, 1925 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster sartocrypta | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster strictor | Hull, 1941 | ants | Neotropical | |
Mixogaster thecla | Hull, 1954 | ants | Neotropical |
REFERENCES
- Hull, F.M. 1941. Some undescribed Syrphid flies from the Neotropical region. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 31: 432-440.
- Hull, F.M. 1954. The genus Mixogaster Macquart (Diptera, Syrphidae). American Museum Novitates 1652, 28 pp.
- Kahl, P.H.I. 1897. New species of the syrphid genera Mixogaster Macq. and Ceria Fabr., with notes. The Kansas University Quarterly ser. A, 6: 137-146.
- Macquart, P.J.M. 1842. Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--2e partie. Roret, Paris. Pp. 5-140.
- Walker, F. 1849. List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part III. British Museum (Natural History), London. Pp. [iii]+485-687.